Cassette Culture [Jerry Kranitz]

[Cassettes] [Noise] [DIY]

Cassette Culture

Jerry Kranitz

Monger Publications, 2025. Second edition paperback. New.

From the publisher:

"Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global homemade music/cassette culture network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. Jerry Kranitz explores how the participants communicated, traded, collaborated, and set up cottage industry labels to distribute their work. A long overdue study of this pivotal yet less than comprehensively documented chapter in the post-punk and 20th century independent arts movement stories."

Previously only available as a very pricey hardcover, I am happy to offer up a second edition copy of this genius work for you. If you have any interest in noise, tape culture, or mail art, just buy it and don't be a dummy.